[Roxy]

I am not a runt, nor a simpleton, I am known as a pygmy goat!!!
 
Had a giggle last night. Some people stopped in our layby above the fields, and were admiring the view - nice evening and  sun on the hills was stunning.  Some of the goats went up the track to say hello.  The two large Franks, and their mate, little Edward.
 
These people were obviously townies.  The lady said she had never seen a goat close up before.  My husband picked up Edward, who is 6 months old,and  the lady stroked him.  Probably not the best of ideas given that he is intact, and just beginning to smell, but never mind, knowing nothing about goats, she would not realise the billy goat smell until she left .....Because the two Franks are enormous, Edward looks even more diddy than he actually is.  Lady asked if there was something wrong as he was so small, and was he perhaps not "all there?"  Tried to explain what a pygmy goat was, but think they went away convinced Edward was a midget
 
He is up for sale, and the lady thought he was lovely.  Could have sold him - she may not think him so lovely when she got a whiff of billy goat smell.

[Lesley Silvester]

 

It's a bit cheeky though to pick him up. Did they ask first?

[Roxy]

   It was my husband who picked Edward up, and held him above the gate - being so small, he cannot reach when people want to stroke him.
 

[Lesley Silvester]

Sorry, misread that. Wonder if she's managed to get the smell off yet. 

[Roxy]

Eau de billy goat is rather resilient to soap, and can linger.  I know one of the men mending the electric pylons stroked one of the male goats over the wall.  The following day, he told me his wife had given him a right telling off for the smell he brought into the house.  He said he scrubbed his hands, but the smell was still there. 

[jaykay]

Ha, Edward gets his own back for her thinking he was stunted 

[Lesley Silvester]

 

I remember what it's like when one of the girls comes back from her honeymoon. You can smell her from yards away for ages.

[little blue]

Roxy... did you consider telling them about your "micro" pig?! 

(Little Lucky, the smallest kune kune in the county!)

[Roxy]

I think Lucky could qualify as the smallest kune kune in the country, let alone county?  I have a female pygmy who is a year old, and she is smaller than Edward who is 6 months old!!
 
Cannot believe it, but Edward has come out this morning sporting a beard like his dad, Bobby....and its quite a big beard.  How can it have grown so quick!!!  Sure he did not have a beard yesterday.

[Lesley Silvester]

Maybe it's a fake one. 

[little blue]

Maybe it's a fake one. 

cos he's trying to look more grown up?!!


Willow has a little tufty beard, that some days you hardly notice, but others is quite bushy!
Must be a goat thing...

[NormandyMary]

My Billy who is now over 2 years old has just started sprouting hairs under his chinny chin chin, but Toby, his brother, hasn't. Im sure that Billy takes after his daddy who had a huge beard. Would the fact that Billy has had his nuts off stop him from getting a big beard like his daddy who was obviously still complete? I don't really want him to have one, but I'd like to know why its taken so long to grow and why its so thin.

[little blue]

no, even lady goats get beards!
just depends on their genes ...

our Willow grew hers with her first moult

[Roxy]

Intact pygmy billies seem to grow very long beards,but the castrated ones are nowhere  near as big!!

[jinglejoys]

I don't "do" hairless Billies

or Nannies for that matter 

  I remember at the Evesham show when some people came in with their pet goat that sported a lovely beard. Just before the class they cut it off!!!!!! Didn't make them win the class and the goat lost her natural feature just for the sake of it